Cooking utensil.



M. P. DOLAN.

COOKING UTENSIL.

APPLIUATION FILED 00T .1, 1909.

i Patented Mar. l, 1910.

Wil/neocon S Home/lf MA'rTrE r. DOLAN, or ABERDEEN, WASHINGTON COOKING'UTENSIL Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 1, 1910..

Application tiled October 1, 1909. Serial No. '520,437.

To all whom Lt may concern:

Be it known that l, Martin F. DoLAN, a citizen of the United States,residing 'at (Aberdeen, in the county of Chehalis, State ofllashingtcn,.have'invented certain new and useful lmprovements inCookingUtensils; and 1 do hereby declare thefollo-wing to be a full,clear, and exact description Iof the invention, such as will ,enableothers skilled in the art to which Vit appertains to make and use thesame. g l

This invention relates to cooking utensils, more particularly to theclass'of frying-pans and the like, and has for its object to provide asimply constructed ldeivfice comprising two independent compartments forthe food to be coo (ed and a double cover whereby ac.- cess may be hadto either of the compart-| ments without disturbingv the contents of theother compartment.

With this and other objects in view,y the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction as hereafter shown and described andthenfspecifically pointed out in the claims, and m the drawingsillustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is aperspective view of the improved device with the cover located thereonand in closed position. Fig. 2 is a similar view with one portion of thecover in cpen position. f Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the improvedpan with the cover removed. Fig-4 is a perspective view of the coverviewed from beneath.

The improved device comprises a body' f portion, represented as a wholeat '10', and

member 10 is a cover structure formed of' two leaves or portlonsvlit-llt, hingedlyunited at 15, each portlon forming a closure.

to oneof the compartments of the vessel 10.

Connected to the underface of the portion 13 of the cover is a holdingstrip 16 which is designed to bear at one side of the division member11. while a similar strip 17 is connected to the closure member 14 andbears against the opposite side of the member 11. Depending from ,.thecov-er member '13 near 1ts outer rim is a senil-circular flange 18,Whilea similar flange 19 depends from the closure member 14, the flangesbearing inside of the rim ofthe member 10 and assisting in maintainingthe cover in posi tion, and also forming strips to prevent the escape ofthe fumes and also to prevent the fumes from one compartment frompassing into that of the other. By this means dif- .ferent articles offood maybe cooked at the same time without interference one with theother, and articles of food which require different lengths of time maybe disposed in the different compartments and removed therefrom withoutinterference with the other compartment. Thus fish which takes longer tocook than some kinds of meat may tremain for` any desired period of timein its compartment, or several articles may be cooked in one compartmentduringl the same period of time that one article of food is being cookedinthe other compartment. The improved' device will be found of greatadvantage in short-order restaurants, and may be employed upon coal orvgas ranges with equal facility.

Mounted ttgging at one end at 20 to the cover membe is a handle 21having its free end'formed with a lateral offset 22, and connected tothecover 1nember21 is a keeper 23 beneath'which the offset 22 engageswhen the handle is disposed in one position. By this means the handle isutilized to form a lock device between the members 13-14 and maintainthem rigidly in open position as shown in Fig. 1. When the handle andthe closure are arranged as shown in Fig. 1, it willv be obvious thatthe closure may beA lifted bodily from the vessellO in the same manneras an ordinary one-piece cover; but, when access is desired to eitherone of the two compartments of the vessel 10, the handle 21 is turnedupon'its pivot 2O until the'offset 221s free from the keeper 23 when thehandle may be turned into the position shown inFig. `2, thus releasingthe covery members so that either may be turned upwardly withoutuncovering the other compartment. Thus thecontents of either compartmentis accessible without disturbing or exposing the contents of the othercompartment The vessel 10 may be formed of any suitable material, and ofany required size, and

it is not desired therefore to limit the improved device to any specific.size or toV any particular `material from which 1t \may be constructed.The cover members 13-14 may y also be formed from any suitable materialand of a size to correspond to the member 10 in connection with which itis to be employed.

What is'claimed is 1. A cooking utensil comprising a hollow body havinga partition dividing it into compartments, a closure formed of portionscorresponding to the compartments and hingedly united, a combined lockand handle swinging at one end from one of said cover portions, and akeeper carried by the other Y cover portion and adapted to receive oneend of the handle.

2. A cooking utensil comprising ahollow bbdy having a partition dividingit into compartment-s, a closure formed of portions corresponding to thecompartments and hingedly united, flanges depending from the coverportions and enga ging within the compartments of the body, a combinedlock and handle swinging at one end kfrom one of said cover portions,and a keeper carried by the other cover portion and adapted to receiveone end of the handle.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in presence of twowitnesses.

MATTIE F. DOLAN. Witnesses:

GUY MARTEN, ALLEY RoAr.

